Synodic month length 29.31 days

Length of current 116 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes. It is 24 minutes longer than next lunation 117 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 49 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 8 June 2009 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠332.7°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠332.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠349.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before apogee

13 days after point of perigee on 26 May 2009 at 03:44 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 June 2009 at 16:04 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 403 873 km

Moon before ascending node

11 days after its descending node on 28 May 2009 at 10:19 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 June 2009 at 10:15 in ♒ Aquarius.

Draconic month

Moon in southern standstill

At 02:03 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.429°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.446° in its northern standstill point on 22 June 2009 at 02:48 in ♊ Gemini.